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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/05/2026

once again, it is great that the president is a klan-level racist

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David Bering-Porter @atg-dbp.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

So excited that the book is coming out in November from @uminnpress.bsky.social!

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

me every single day

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Trump has launched a war of “fury,” to “raze” and “annihilate,” that has already killed dozens of Iranian girls, reportedly cost the lives of U.S. servicemembers, and will kill many more of both. He is acting without authorization by Congress and flouting international law.

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David Bering-Porter @atg-dbp.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Just over 3 weeks in and this semester is already getting weird.

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Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 04/02/2026

"Abolish the Police and then what?" while infantile and often asked in bad faith, is at least, on some levels, a real question "Ablish ICE and then what?" Is not a real question. Clearly if ICE didn't exist tomorrow society would just objectively be more peaceful and would not in any way fall apart

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David Bering-Porter @atg-dbp.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Can anyone recommend some good writing on the idea of recursion? Something in sound or image would be ideal, but math and computation is also more than welcome - I'm casting a wide net and looking to see what I find!

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David Bering-Porter @atg-dbp.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

The linked Tik Tok pretty well sums up the current fascism.

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David Bering-Porter @atg-dbp.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

A brilliant analysis of the state of higher education in the U.S. The crisis of the humanities has always been the tip of the spear of authoritarian governmentality taking aim at civil society and the entire apparatus of education www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

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The ‘Crisis of the Humanities’ Is Over. That’s Not a Good Thing.

All of higher ed now suffers the attacks of politics and technology.

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David Bering-Porter @atg-dbp.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

A timely reminder about the importance of higher education from an institution being dismantled by neoliberalism. Full article here: jacobin.com/2025/12/new-...

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David Bering-Porter @atg-dbp.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Teaching Baudrillard's "The Precession of Simulacra" today, now that we're reaching the end of my Paranoid Aesthetics class. Every time I teach this text, I am always amazed at how prescient it is.

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Lyn Goeringer @lyngoeringer.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

It's about cruelty. It's only about cruelty and an enforcement of extreme poverty.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

People need to understand that Chicago is a preview, not a culmination.

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David Bering-Porter @atg-dbp.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Starving the population rarely goes well for authoritarian regimes. Also, I would love to hear from the many so-called Christians in the Republican party about what their beliefs say about feeding the hungry. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

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Trump Administration Live Updates: Officials Demand States ‘Undo’ Work to Send Full Food Stamps

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David Bering-Porter @atg-dbp.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Interesting. It would be fascinating to see MTG and others move away from the extreme Right, and showing them to be political opportunists and their Right-wing discourse as something rooted in bad-faith arguments.

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David Bering-Porter @atg-dbp.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

I can't even begin to say how pleased I am to have been a part of electing Zohran Mamdani as mayor of NYC!

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

I can’t stress this enough. They want to do inside the US the kind of extrajudicial murders they’ve been doing internationally. This has always been about normalizing the ability of Trump to smite his personal enemies without suffering legal consequences. Trump’s testing for compliance & resistance.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Remember when Paul Krugman’s columns were soooo wonky. “It sounds crazy to say that Republicans are making children go hungry to protect pedophiles, but it’s actually a reasonable interpretation of the situation.” - Paul Krugman

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The Hunger Games Begin

40 million Americans are about to lose food stamps

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David Bering-Porter @atg-dbp.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Teaching the first episode of The X-Files in class tomorrow as we consider the role of government and sovereign authority in the construction of conspiracy. We've been talking a lot about UFOs in class, and it will be interesting to hear their perspective on such an iconic TV show.

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

On October 3rd, I’m asking you to register to vote. zohranfornyc.com/register

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David Bering-Porter @atg-dbp.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Excited to see this small piece I wrote on horror, possession, and opera come out in Calibano, the magazine of the Rome Opera! www.operaroma.it/en/calibano/...

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In the Grip of the Past: Haunting, Possession, and Repetition in the Culture Industry |

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David Bering-Porter @atg-dbp.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

"From the dawn of civilization onwards, crowds have always undergone the influence of illusions ... The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them." -- Gustave Le Bon, _The Crowd_.

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David Bering-Porter @atg-dbp.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

I hope he's okay, but we need more of this.

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David Bering-Porter @atg-dbp.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

A nice refutation of Sam Altman's asinine comment that GPT-5 has "PhD level intelligence:" www.reddit.com/r/Artificial...

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From the ArtificialInteligence community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the ArtificialInteligence community

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David Bering-Porter @atg-dbp.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

What are your favorite podcasts, YouTube channels, or other mass media platforms that engage in critical theory, cultural studies, media studies, etc.?

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David Bering-Porter @atg-dbp.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Proofreading has some real highs and lows. Sometimes you are reminded why your argument is actually pretty good and the next moment you see that you've misspelled "the" for the 15th time.

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David Bering-Porter @atg-dbp.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

A perfect, concise reading of Trump's idiotic press briefing. No notes.

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David Bering-Porter @atg-dbp.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

A more complete report on the DOGE fiasco. I say we, the people, sue to get our money back.

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Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

I don’t think we know enough just yet to understand how this will affect NPR and PBS but both received a very small percentage of their budgets from the CPB. This will however have an immediate effect on local public radio and TV affiliates, esp in rural & Indigenous areas More info here (gift 🔗)

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Column: The Corporation for Public Broadcast is ‘winding down.’ What does that mean for public radio and TV?

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced it is “wind-down” operations. What does this mean for public radio and TV?

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David Bering-Porter @atg-dbp.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Let that sink in. What DOGE burned through in six months, through sheer stupidity, carelessness, and cruelty, could have funded the NEH for more than a century. This was never an attempt to save money, it was a mugging.

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes

Wall Street Journal headline and deck: "New York Shooting Puts Mamdani on the Spot Over Policing Views: The killing of four people in a Midtown office building rattled a city where mass attacks are rare and violent crime has declined."

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David Bering-Porter @atg-dbp.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

I acknowledge that the new system is better, but sometimes I miss "ibid."

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David Bering-Porter @atg-dbp.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Preparing a final manuscript means going down some very weird rabbit holes to clarify some very minor points.

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David Bering-Porter @atg-dbp.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

I love that this is the summer that my car's air conditioning has decided to die.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Faculty who wrote to defend their president and object to a DOJ investigation of their university...are now being investigated by the DOJ. The most banal defense of free speech and academic freedom will trigger the full wrath of the US government now. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...

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Faculty Support of George Mason’s President Draws Federal Investigation

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David Bering-Porter @atg-dbp.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

It's not fair to be existentially exhausted on a Saturday.

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David Bering-Porter @atg-dbp.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

What fresh hell is this? www.tesla.com/tesla-diner

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